Join us for a faculty spotlight on Marie Howe, author of the recent New and Selected Poems for which she received a Pulitzer Prize, who will be in conversation with faculty member Victoria Redel.
Marie Howe: BS, University of Windsor, Canada. MFA, Columbia University. Author of four books of poetry, the most recent Magdalene (WW Norton and Company). Howe was New York State Poet Laureate from 2012-2016. She is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the poet-in-residence at The Cathedral Church of St John the Divine. She has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Bunting Institute at Radcliffe/Harvard, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, POETRY, and other magazines. Her New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Norton in 2024. SLC, 1993–
Victoria Redel: BA, Dartmouth College. MFA, Columbia University. Author of four books of poetry and six books of fiction, including I Am You (2025). For her collection of stories, Make Me Do Things (2013), Redel was awarded a 2014 Guggenheim fellowship for fiction. Her novels include The Border of Truth (2007) and Loverboy (Graywolf, 2001/Harcourt, 2002), which was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Loverboy was adapted for a feature film, directed by Kevin Bacon. Swoon (University of Chicago Press, 2003) was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated and has appeared in numerous publications, including Granta, Harvard Review, The Quarterly, The Literarian, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Elle, BOMB, More, NOON, and O, The Oprah Magazine. SLC, 1996–
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